Major chance

One runner today, and with a very decent chance.  Major Eazy, a nice 2yo last year, came back a couple of weeks ago and ran a very nice race at Ascot.  We didn’t expect much that day and we were pleasantly surprised – he should be fully fit now and ready to do the business. He has a decent draw …

Morgans and Goldmans

An incredible and historic day on Wall Street, with the Dow down close to 700 points moments after the open, rallying late to be 300 points up at one point before closing down 128.  The trading range for the day was over 1,000 points, which is unprecedented. All things considered it was a pretty good performance, and I sense we’re …

Move over darling

The markets are grim this morning – Alistair Darling perhaps predictably has failed to calm the storm.  I have a lot of sympathy for his approach – he’s been panned for taking too long to make up his mind but he needed time to assess the situation properly.  Almost all of the journalistic comment I’ve read so far has been negative …

Catching Up

A week away and a lot to report. Effingham came nowhere – the vet has found a small fracture which could be the problem.  He’ll be gelded now – should be ok next season. We’ve had a decent offer for Lord Peter Flint which is subject to a vet’s exam – if he passes he’ll be sold.  I’ll update later. …

Eazy does it

Hoorah!! Another win for the heroes as Major Eazy triumphs at Salisbury in a pretty hot conditions race under a nice ride from Richard Hughes.  He was returned at 12-1, but there was clearly a bit of money for him (ahem…).  He’ll go into the sales at some point and this will have done him no harm at all – we’ll probably …

In other news

I’m still reeling over the Winker news – apart from anything else it was only a gentle piece of work today.  I really believe he was a virtual certainty in the Middle Park – Pete certainly thought so and the only threat looked to be Sir Gerry – he would have been a very short price.  Reading the Betfair forum I …

All guns blazing

Winker made the front page of the Racing Post today as Jeremy went public with our ambitious plans.  Winker is extremely well and we think he’s the best 2yo out there – we’re going to try to win both the Middle Park and the Dewhurst to prove our point, and we’re hoping we can persuade Jim Bolger to run New Approach against …

Winker waits

Pete called us after Winker‘s work this morning and said he is still running a bit flat and needs more time.  We could have run him over the weekend in group company but he’s too good a horse to take liberties with.  The Middle Park is only three weeks away and that is his next target – he should be …

A poor start to the week

A bad day yesterday – Major Eazy ran his worst race for a while and I lost a lot of money punting.  To make matters worse I twice backed against horses of Pete’s and on both occasions Pete’s horse won.  Major Eazy takes a decent break now, which I think is well overdue.  I was at Goodwood yesterday, but I won’t …

The adventures of Ary

After a lot of hype Ary finally came out on Saturday.  It looked as if he was dead and buried, but in a dramatic finale he stormed back to beat Tom.  Unfortunately King’s Quay came on the wide outside and beat them both – still an excellent second, and if the cards had fallen a little better for him he could …